LANHYDROCK, a parish in the hundred of PYDER, county of CORNWALL, 2 miles (S. by E.) from Bodmin, containing 251 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, and in the patronage of G. Hunt, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Hydrock, though small, is an elegant fabric, "with an embattled tower overgrown with ivy; a few years since it underwent a thorough repair, the ancient style of the building being preserved entire. Lanhydrock house, which is approached from the river Fowey by a fine avenue of trees about a mile in length, was garrisoned for the parliament in the civil war, and surrendered to the royalists under Sir Richard Grenville, in August 1644: it is an embattled structure of granite, forming three sides of a quadrangle, in the style that prevailed in the early part of the seventeenth century, but of late years, through neglect, it has been going gradually to decay.